Head of this profile's list of endpoints. This endpoint is not dynamically allocated because a profile always contains at least one endpoint.

Currently, a profile contains more than one endpoint, i.e., list contains more than just the head, only when RTCORBA is enabled. However, in the near future, this will be used in nonRT mode as well, e.g., to support a la TAG_ALTERNATE_IIOP_ADDRESS feature. Addressing info of the default endpoint, i.e., head of the list, is transmitted using standard UIOP ProfileBody components. See <encode_endpoints> method documentation above for how the rest of the endpoint list is transmitted.